THE CORD The tie that bin ds Wilfrid Laurier Un ivers ity s in ce 1926
Volume 52, Issue 4
thecord.ca
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
The Wrath of Con Arts, page 5
Wade ThoMpson VIsual dIrector
Comic creator Robert Kirkman (bottom left) answers fans questions while cosplayers emulate the likes of Master Chief (top left) and the ladies of Sucker Punch (right).
Artists return to the Hillside
Inside Campus improvements
the cord and thousands of devotees flocked to Guelph’s annual festival Mike lakusiak In depth edItor
Once again, The Cord was lucky enough to attend the 28th annual Hillside festival at the Guelph Lake Island this July, for three days of music, communal living and praying for overnight rain so the fire ban would be lifted. There’s something about Hillside that keeps people coming back year after year, like the man dubbed “King of the Hillside” who had camped since Wednesday in the volunteer area with an elaborate arrangement of tarps and tiki torches in anticipation of the drum circles, very polite people and music to come. “The people that come here come here every year,” said Torquil Campbell of Memphis, who was playing the festival with bandmate Chris Dumont. “Some of them have come for 20 or 30 years and they bring their families and kids and that, to me, is the spirit of a festival.” Last year’s Hillside was capped off by a performance by Campbell’s other band, Stars, and he explained his connection to the festival. “I basically have bands so I can have an excuse to come hang out at Hillside in the summertime,” he said, counting off appearances with Stars and Broken Social Scene at the festival. “Summer isn’t complete for me without playing a show here.” Campbell and Dumont are touring on their recent release of Here
From the Terrace food court to the Concourse, Laurier is receiving many upgrades this summer. News, page 3
You have to be part of a community. It’s the kind of festival that when it leaves, the community is better off for it.”
Coach swaps colour Former UW hockey coach of six years looks to the Golden Hawks as his new home. Sports, page 8
—Torquil Campbell, Memphis
Eating healthy Comes a City and played their own set on Saturday, in addition to Campbell appearing with young Toronto band Hooded Fang earlier in the day. That performance was one of many workshop collaborations that matched different artists together on a single stage just to see what might happen. Michael Wrycraft has been the main stage MC at the festival for 17 years and explained that the workshop arrangement that is employed at Hillside is a purely Canadian invention. “It’s not even in Europe, it’s not in America,” he said. “In most festivals in the world there is a main stage and numerous side stages — that’s it.” Arts, page 6
The Cord investigates different diets from veganism to kosher and why students make these life choices. Features, page 4
What would Wilf do?
Mike lakusiak In depth edItor
Chris Murphy of Sloan performs on the main stage at Hillside on Sunday with Kevin Drew as part of the workshop “Coast to Coast.”
This week a male student writes in asking for advice about dating and sex. Life, thecord.ca